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"How to Build Back Better"

Targets prospective voters (ends with “Text JOIN to 30330”); outlines the steps Biden plans to undertake in order to meet the challenges of the current health/economic/racial justice/climate crises, and thus “build back better.”
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Take a look at America today over a hundred and fifty thousand Americans are dead from Covid-19.
We have a health crisis worsened by Trump's failure to act, an economic crisis deepened by Trump's failure to get the virus under control, a racial justice crisis fanned by Trump's words of hate, a climate crisis exacerbated by Trump's denial of science,, and America needs a plan to solve all of them.

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Over the last century America has defined itself by rising to meet existential challenges. This great nation will endure as it has endured; this country of the United States was not built by those who waited and rested America is a place where all things are possible in order to meet the challenges today we can't just build back the way things were before; we have to build back better.

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We'll make the biggest investment in manufacturing and innovation since World War II, bringing back critical supply chains and ensuring the future is made in America by American workers. Today federal investment in research and development is an all-time low; that's why i'm proposing historic research and development investment to sharpen America's competitive edge in new industries experts say that this 300 billion dollar investment could help create three million good paying jobs in communities all across America. There's no more consequential challenge we have to meet in the next decade than the on-rushing climate crisis; we'll meet this challenge by creating millions of jobs in a clean energy economy, jobs that will ensure American automobile industry leads the world in manufacturing electric vehicles with 500 000 charging stations all across the country. We'll ensure that America has the cleanest safest and fastest rail system in the world.

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we're going to make investments so by the end of my first term we are going to be on an irreversible course to achieve net zero emissions economy-wide no later than 2050. In order to build back better we have to prioritize our caregiving workforce and free up hard-working Americans; my plan will put three million Americans to work. We'll work with states to offer every three and four-year-old child in America access to free high-quality preschool right now low and middle-income families spend as much as 35 of their income on child care. We'll make it so they won't ever have to spend more than seven percent of their income and will give more older Americans and people with disabilities the choice to get care in their home or in the community-based setting starting with the 800,000 individuals currently on a waiting list to be able to do just that. In order to build back better we have to
ensure that all Americans have opportunities to generate wealth especially communities of color that have been historically left out of the benefits of an economic recovery. That's why I'm going to take on our successful Obama Biden small business fund and scale it up to 20 times the size so the black and brown small business owners have access to 150 billion in venture capital and low interest financing. Times are tough now in America, but we've been here before. We can do this we can build back better and i'm looking forward to getting started as soon as we can.
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"How to Build Back Better," Biden, 2020

Original air date: 08/08/20

From Museum of the Moving Image, The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2012.
www.livingroomcandidate.org/commercials/2020/how-to-build-back-better (accessed May 21, 2025).

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2020 Biden Trump Results
Former Vice President Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election. Due to COVID-19 and the influx of mail voting across the country, it took more time to process the final results and project winners in Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. While President Trump has alleged unsubstantiated charges of voter fraud and pursued legal challenges to the election results, courts have found no evidence and have dismissed these cases.

The 2020 election took place following a year of political, public health, economic, and social crises. On December 18, 2019, the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald J. Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress in relation to his dealings with Ukraine. On February 5, 2020, the Senate voted to acquit him on both charges.

The central campaign issue was the coronavirus pandemic, which hit the United States in early March. On March 13, President Trump declared a national emergency, but left decisions about shutdowns of business operations and stay-at-home directives up to the states. By March 26, the United States had the most confirmed cases in the world, and as of September 1, the United States led the world with over 6 million cases and more than 180,000 COVID-19 deaths. A major economic crash soon followed, and by April nearly 10 million Americans were unemployed, with cases and death rates increasing daily. The Biden campaign pointed to the escalation of COVID-19, the lack of a coordinated testing system as evidence, and the frequent presidential disregard for public health recommendations as evidence that Trump failed Americans. Republicans have argued that actions like the bipartisan stimulus plan that President Trump signed into law showed evidence of presidential leadership. Both sides took different public health approaches on the campaign trail as well. The Biden team featured drive-in rallies and promoted mask wearing to adhere to Center for Disease Control guidelines. Despite having contracted COVID-19 after the first presidential debate, President Trump organized rallies across battleground states featuring packed crowds without masks.

The other major issue of the campaign was the growing movement for racial justice. A series of police shootings against unarmed people of color, notably Breonna Taylor in March and George Floyd in May, inspired millions of Americans to join demonstrations for Black Lives Matter across the country to demand an end to police brutality and racial inequality in healthcare, education, housing, and historical commemorations. The Democratic Party made racial justice and criminal justice reform a central issue, lending support to peaceful protesters across the country. In contrast, Donald Trump vilified protesters as a threat to law and order and warned voters about the dangers of a potential “left-wing Democratic takeover” under a Biden administration.
Democrat
Joseph R. Biden Jr. for president
Kamala Harris for vice president

“Build Back Better.”

Joseph R. Biden Jr. (b. 1942) was the 47th Vice President of the United States serving under President Barack Obama from 2009–2017. He previously had served as a U.S. Senator representing Delaware for thirty-six years. He has selected Kamala D. Harris as his nominee for Vice President. A lawyer and the current junior U.S. Senator from California, Harris is the first woman of color to secure a VP nomination on a major party ticket. The campaign has emphasized Biden’s character and years of public service, especially during the Obama administration, making the argument that Biden would serve as a transformative figure following the divisive Trump era. In his video announcing his presidential run, he declared, “If we give Donald Trump eight years in the White House, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation, who we are, and I cannot stand by and watch that happen.”
Republican
Donald J. Trump for president
Mike Pence for vice president

“Keep America Great.”

Donald J. Trump (b. 1946) is the 45th President of the United States, and he ran for a second term with his current Vice President, Mike Pence, the former governor of Indiana. The presidency of the former real-estate developer and reality television star has been characterized by divisive rhetoric, unconventional use of social media, and frequent promotion of misinformation. He is the third President in history to be impeached by the House of Representatives and acquitted in the Senate. His reelection campaign has centered on celebrating the state of the economy before the economic crash in the spring of 2020, and invoking “law and order” to quell the ongoing protests for racial equality.
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